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QUESTION WEEK 3

The listed of all character of anatomy :

Arm/leg - an upper or lower stroke that is attached on one end and free on the other

Ascender - The part of a lowercase character that extends above the x-height

Decender - below the base line.

Bar - The horizontal stroke in character

Bowl - A curved stroke that create an enclosed space within a character

Counter - The partially or fully enclosed space within a character

Cap Height - The height of capital letters from the baseline to the top of caps , usually its accurately measured on a character with a flat bottom

Ear- The small stroke that project from the top of the lowercase

Link - Stroke that connect the top and bottom part of a two-story lowercase

Loop- The lower portion of the lowercase

Serif- Projection extending off the main stroke of the character of serif typefaces

Shoulder - The curved stroke of the letters

Spine - Main curved stroke of the S

Spur - Small projection off a main stroke found on many capital Gs

Stem- Straight vertical stroke / The main straight diagonal stroke in a letter with no verticals

Stress - The direction of thickening in a curved stroke

Stroke - A straight or curved line

Swash - A fancy flourish replacing a terminal or serif

Tail - The descender of a Q or short diagonal stroke of an R

Terminal - The end of a stroke not terminate with a serif

X-height- The height of lowercase letters , specifically the lowercase x ,

not include the ascenders and descenders .

Importance of anatomy in Typography :

-Easily for reader to understand and read the typography